Wine Enthusiast, 95 points: Rich wonderfully concentrated wine with ripe apricots green plums touches of toast riding over a structure that is just beginning a long aging process. Give this wine 10 years. This is the last vintage under this name...

Neal Martin's Wine Journal, 95 points: (NM93-95 points) The Larcis-Ducasse is a blend of 83% Merlot and 17% Cabernet Franc picked on 11th-18th October and 18th October respectively, cropped at 28hl/ha. The nose is very complete even at this primal stage with...

Wine Enthusiast, 94 points: An ethereally lithe and elegant wine, the aromatic profile and exuberance on the palate suggest savory and spicy specks of pomegranate, cranberry and even rhubarb. It's fresh, structured and well-integrated, with a bite...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: A 2700-case blend of 88% Merlot and 12% Cabernet Franc cropped at a low 27 hectoliters per hectare (compare that with 39 hectoliters per hectare in 2009 and 31 in 2010) this superb claret was aged 18 months in 75% new...

Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 98 points: 98+ The 2009 Mouton Rothschild is exceptionally beautiful. A huge, powerful wine, the 2009 possesses stunning richness and radiance, with plenty of underlying structure to support all of that exuberance. Smoke, grilled...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 98 points: The 2010 Chateauneuf du Pape Cuvee Reservee which I tasted from several foudres is essentially equivalent in quality but it has not yet been bottled. If I understood Paul Feraud correctly he tends to prefer the 2009 but...

Wine Spectator, 94 points: #64 on 2009 Top 100; There's a great dark color to this with intense aromas of cedar wood new leather and crushed blackberry. Full-bodied with loads of fruit and a firm powerful palate. Long and mouthpuckering. A muscular...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: (RP94-96 points) Made from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from clone 4 on rootstock 3309, the 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Unnamed tastes like a young Pontet Canet. Its dense purple color is followed by a classic bouquet of creme de...

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